Hashasheen
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What if the Ottomans won the war against the Italians?
They were getting pretty hammered in Libya with only the local garrisons and tribes, as I recall; so if the Ottomans did decide to fight a full war, would they have won?
That assumes we'd get a WW1 that is identical to the OTL one, which is not a given. For one thing, if the Ottomans win the war with Italy, the First Balkans War will be affected, which would influence Serbian attitudes (the idea of supporting terrorism in the Habsburg Empire might be less influential if Macedonia is still under Ottoman rule, for instance)...Even if the Ottomans had the won the war, it would have made little difference (assuming they still went along with the Germans in WWI). The Ottomans would have retained Tripoli for another few years, then would have been mandated or given a protectorate to some other power. Same outcome, really.
What if the Ottomans won the war against the Italians?They were getting pretty hammered in Libya with only the local garrisons and tribes, as I recall; so if the Ottomans did decide to fight a full war, would they have won?
2. Italy being humiliated could also create Italian butterflies, not an expert on Italian interior policies at this time, but I guess changes would happen.
Assuming a), most of the radical politics of the time were anti-state socialist and syndicalist, with part of the latter drifting towards nationalism (and the foundations of Fascism)...at the most moderate a more socialist/syndicalist parliament; at weirdest the rise of a decentralized (Balkanized?) socialist/syndicalist Italy?
It might be one of my idea fixa, but might this not be a time where the Two Sicilies (even as a revolutionary republic) might reestablish itself?
Italy being humiliated could also create Italian butterflies, not an expert on Italian interior policies at this time, but I guess changes would happen.
What if the Ottomans won the war against the Italians?They were getting pretty hammered in Libya with only the local garrisons and tribes, as I recall; so if the Ottomans did decide to fight a full war, would they have won?